Khaled Ghannam
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Office
- 132C Nightingale Hall
Research Focus
Boundary-layer meteorology, land-atmosphere interactions, air quality modeling, hydroclimatology
Education
- PhD, Environmental Sciences, Duke University, 2017
Honors & Awards
Professional Affiliations
- American Meteorological Society
- American Physical Society
- American Geophysical Union
- European Geophysics Union.
Research Overview
Boundary-layer meteorology, land-atmosphere interactions, air quality modeling, hydroclimatology
Selected Publications
- Yin, Z., Findell, K., Dirmeyer, P., Ghannam, K., Shevliakova, E., Malyshev, S., Tan, Z. (2022) “Daytimeonly-
mean data can enhance understanding of land-atmosphere coupling”. Hydrology and Earth
System Sciences. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-769, 2022 - Chowdhuri, S., Ghannam, K., & Banerjee, T. (2022). A scale-wise analysis of intermittent momentum
transport in dense canopy flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 942, A51. doi:10.1017/jfm.2022.414 - Zahn, E., Bou-Zeid, E., Good, S., Katul, G., Thomas, C., Ghannam, K., Smith, J., Chamecki, M., Dias, N.L.,
Fuentes, J.D., Kustas, W.P. (2022) “Direct Partitioning of Eddy-Covariance Water and Carbon Dioxide
Fluxes into Ground and Plant Components”. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 315, 108790.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108790 - Shevliakova, E., Ghannam, K., Findell, K., Milly, P. C. D., et al. (2022) “The Land Component LM4.1 of
the GFDL Earth System Model ESM4.1: Biophysical and Biogeochemical Processes and Interactions with
Climate”. Journal of Advances in Modeling the Earth System. - Ghannam, K., and Bou-Zeid, E., (2022) “Baroclinicity and directional shear explain departures from the
logarithmic wind profile”. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.1-22.
https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3927
Jan 30, 2025
Faculty and Staff Awards 2025
Faculty and staff were recognized at the 27th Annual College of Engineering Faculty and Staff Awards for their exceptional service and dedication in support of students, the COE community, and the university during the 2024-2025 academic year.
Jan 08, 2024
Urban Pollution Solutions Through Dispersion Modeling and Atmospheric Measurements
CEE Assistant Professor Khaled Ghannam is part of the Intelligent Solutions to Urban Pollution for Equity and Resilience (iSUPER), a Northeastern initiative that will integrate sensors and prediction models to detect pollution on a neighborhood-level scale. The resulting data will hopefully inform policy decisions to improve urban air quality.
Aug 18, 2023
New Faculty Spotlight: Khaled Ghannam
Khaled Ghannam joins the Civil and Environmental Engineering department in August 2023 as an Assistant Professor.